Hair-curling device



1943- s. FREEMAN ,308

HAIR CURLING DEVICE Original Filed Sept. 16, 1936 INVENTOR. Samuel \Teema ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 19, 1943 HAIR-CURLING DEVICE Samuel Freeman, New York, N. Y., assignor to William Finkelstein, New York, N. Y., doing business as Eastern Trading Company Original application September 16, 1936, Serial No. 101,023. Divided and this application Dece'mber 30, 1938, Serial No. 248,459

10 Claims.

My invention relates to a new and improved hair-curling device.

This application is a division of 'my application Serial No. 101,028, filed on September 16, 1936, in the United States Patent Office.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a hair curler of the type in which a hair pin can be inserted into thecurler, prior to'the use thereof, with the shanks of said hair pin held separated from each other, so that after a lock of hair has been curled, said lock of hair can be slid off the curler, to be clamped between the legs of the hair pin. 7

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this type which can be manufactured at minimum cost, and which shall be of extremely simple construction.

Other objects of the invention will be stated in the annexed description and drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment thereof, it being understood that the above statement of the objects of my invention is intended generally to explain the same without limiting it in any manner.

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a holder made according to the invention, the hair pin or bobby pin being shown in position.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail view partially broken away, showing a modified tip of the device which is shown in Fig. 1.

The curler comprises a holder tube 25, which is provided with a rounded tip 25a. The successive cross-sections of said tip 25a are a series of circles of successively diminishing diameter, and the longitudinal surface elements of said rounded tip 250. are curved lines.

As shown in Fig. 4, said surface elements of the tip may be straight lines, so that the tip 252;, which is shown in Fig. 4, has a general frustoconical shape. Therefore, when one shank of a hair pin or of a hobby pin H is inserted into the holder tube 25, as shown in Fig. 1, the outer shank of the hair pin is held inclined to the longitudinal axis of said holder tube 25, so that when a lock of hair is wound spirally relative to said tube 25, said lock of hair can be slipped longitudinally off the tube 25 and between the outer shank of the member H and the adjacent part of the tube 25.

The outer shank of the hair pin H has a definite angle to the central longitudinal axis of the tube 25.

A'clamping member or bar 26 of the conventional type is pivotally connected to the tube 25, by meansof a pivot pin 21. This member 26 has a finger piece 28a. 7 1 v A blade spring 28 is located between said finger piece 26a and the adjacent shank of the tube 25.

In using this device, the hair pin H is inserted as shown in Fig. 1, so that it is held frictionally in position. One end of the lock or hair is then clamped between the tube 25 and the clamp 26. The lock of hair is then wound spirally around the tube 25 and the clamp 26. After thexlock of hair has been sufliciently wound up, the clamping bar 26 is slightly released, and thelock of hair is then slidlongitudinally, so that the spirally wound portion thereof passes between the outer end of the tube 25 and the external shank of the member I-l. This is continued until the member H is slid longitudinally off the tube 25. One shank of the member H is then located within the spirally wound lock of hair and the other shank is located external thereto, and the lock of hair is clamped between the shanks of the member H. A bobby pin normally has its shanks contacting with each other and said bobby pin is made of resilient material. Hence when the hobby pin is held in the position illustrated in Fig. 1, the shanks or the hobby pin are held separated from each other. The end of the mandrel 25 is therefore necessarily thicker than the normal spacing of the shanks of the bobby pin.

I have shown a preferred embodiment of the invention, but it is clear that numerous changes and omissions can be made without departing from its spirit, and in particular, the claims are not to be limited to the use of the clamping bar 26, unless the claims expressly specify said clampingbar 26, as an element of a claim or claims.

For convenience the member 25 may be designated as a shank. It will be noted that the tip of the member 26 is spaced rearwardly from the tip of the member 25.

I claim:

1. A curling device having a shank, said shank having a recess at its tip, said recess being shaped to receive one shank of a hair pin or bobby pin, the tip of the shank of the curler being shaped to hold the other shank of the hair pinor bobby pin external to the shank of the curler and at an angle to the longitudinal axis thereof.

2. A curling device having a shank, said shank having a recess at its tip, said recess being shaped to receive one shank of a hair pin or bobby pin, the tip of the shank of the curler being shaped to hold the other shank of the hair pin or bobby pin external to the shank of the curler and at an angle to the longitudinal axis thereof, such shank having a clamping bar movably connected thereto, the tip of said clamping bar being spaced rearwardly from the tip of the shank.

3. A curling device having a shank, said shank having a recess at its tip, said recess being shaped to receive one shank of a hair pin or bobby pin, the tip of the shank of the curler being shaped to hold the other shank of the hair pin or bobby pin external to the shank of the curler and at an angle to the longitudinal axis thereof, the external wall of said tip having a. substantially frusto-conical shape.

4. A curling device having a shank, said shank having a recess, said recess being shaped to receive one shank of a hair pin or bobby pin, the tip of the shank of the curler being shaped to hold the other shank of the hair pin or bobby pin external to the shank of the curler and at an angle to the longitudinal axis thereof, and abutting a portion of the external wall of said shank.

5. A hair-curling device comprising a manually revolvable mandrel about which a tress of hair may be wound to form a coil, the mandrel having a smooth end and an axially extending opening of a diameter to receive a hairpin shank, a resilient hairpin having one shank rotatably received in the opening so that the hairpin can be turned relative to the mandrel, the end of the mandrel being thicker than the normal spacing of the shanks of the hairpin so that the wall of the mandrel is gripped and the exposed shank is spread away from the mandrel and is adapted to overlie the wound coil of hair when it is slid off the end of the mandrel.

6. A hair-curling device such as claimed in claim 5, wherein the depth of the opening is slightly less than the length of the shank to afiord a stop, so that a small portion of the end of the hairpin is exposed for manipulation.

7. A hair-curling device such as claimed in claim 5, wherein the openinghas a small diameter at the end of the mandrel and has a larger diameter at its inner end so that the inner end of the inserted shank will be moved off center and the end of the exposed shank moved away from the mandrel.

8. In a hair-dressing tool, a mandrel about which hair is adapted to be wound to form a coil, the end of the mandrel having an axially disposed opening adapted to receive a shank of a hairpin, the mandrel having a chamber into which the opening communicates, the chamber 7 being of larger diameter than the opening so that the enclosed shank may be held in an inclined position relative to the mandrel axis.

9. In combination, a hair pin having a pair of normally closed shanks, and a hair curler including an opening and shank spreading means at one end thereof, one of said shanks adapted to be received in said opening wherebysaid spreading means diverges said shanks to dispose the latter in a straddling gripping engagement with said end for arranging the terminal of the other shank of said pair in a free and unsupported relation outside of said curler whereby said curler may be rotated relative to vsaid shanks.

10. In combination, a resilient hair pin having a pair of normally closed shanks and a loop connecting said shanks, a hair curler rotatable relative to said shanks and having a tip including an opening for receiving one of said shanks and including shank spreading means for diverging said shanks to dispose said loop in a closely straddling and gripping engagement with said tip for arranging the terminal of the other shank of said pair in a free unsupported and widely spaced relation with said curler and obliquely relative to the longitudinal axis of said curler.

SAMUEL FREEMAN. 

